Journal Article: Mice with humanized livers reveal the role of hepatocyte clocks in rhythmic behavior
Delbès, Anne-Sophie, Quiñones, Mar, Gobet, Cédric, Castel, Julien, Denis, Raphaël G. P., Berthelet, Jérémy, Weger, Benjamin D., Challet, Etienne, Charpagne, Aline, Metairon, Sylviane, Piccand, Julie, Kraus, Marine, Rohde, Bettina H., Bial, John, Wilson, Elizabeth M., Vedin, Lise-Lotte, Minniti, Mirko E., Pedrelli, Matteo, Parini, Paolo, Gachon, Frédéric and Luquet, Serge (2023). Mice with humanized livers reveal the role of hepatocyte clocks in rhythmic behavior. Science Advances, 9 (20) eadf2982, 1-14. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adf2982
Journal Article: Systematic analysis of differential rhythmic liver gene expression mediated by the circadian clock and feeding rhythms
Weger, Benjamin D., Gobet, Cédric, David, Fabrice P. A., Atger, Florian, Martin, Eva, Phillips, Nicholas E., Charpagne, Aline, Weger, Meltem, Naef, Felix and Gachon, Frédéric (2021). Systematic analysis of differential rhythmic liver gene expression mediated by the circadian clock and feeding rhythms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (3) e2015803118, 1-12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2015803118
Journal Article: The mouse microbiome is required for sex-specific diurnal rhythms of gene expression and metabolism
Weger, Benjamin D, Gobet, Cédric, Yeung, Jake, Martin, Eva, Jimenez, Sonia, Betrisey, Bertrand, Foata, Francis, Berger, Bernard, Balvay, Aurélie, Foussier, Anne, Charpagne, Aline, Boizet-Bonhoure, Brigitte, Chou, Chieh Jason, Naef, Felix and Gachon, Frédéric (2019). The mouse microbiome is required for sex-specific diurnal rhythms of gene expression and metabolism. Cell Metabolism, 29 (2), 362-382. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2018.09.023
The Microbiota-Growth Hormone Axis - From Metabolic Function to Liver Disease
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Aberrant light exposure, chronodisruption and Alzheimer's disease
(2022–2025) Alzheimer's Association (Chicago)
Investigating the role of liver cell type-specific circadian clocks
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Weger, Benjamin D., Gobet, Cédric, David, Fabrice P. A., Atger, Florian, Martin, Eva, Phillips, Nicholas E., Charpagne, Aline, Weger, Meltem, Naef, Felix and Gachon, Frédéric (2021). Systematic analysis of differential rhythmic liver gene expression mediated by the circadian clock and feeding rhythms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (3) e2015803118, 1-12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2015803118
The mouse microbiome is required for sex-specific diurnal rhythms of gene expression and metabolism
Weger, Benjamin D, Gobet, Cédric, Yeung, Jake, Martin, Eva, Jimenez, Sonia, Betrisey, Bertrand, Foata, Francis, Berger, Bernard, Balvay, Aurélie, Foussier, Anne, Charpagne, Aline, Boizet-Bonhoure, Brigitte, Chou, Chieh Jason, Naef, Felix and Gachon, Frédéric (2019). The mouse microbiome is required for sex-specific diurnal rhythms of gene expression and metabolism. Cell Metabolism, 29 (2), 362-382. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2018.09.023
Mice with humanized livers reveal the role of hepatocyte clocks in rhythmic behavior
Delbès, Anne-Sophie, Quiñones, Mar, Gobet, Cédric, Castel, Julien, Denis, Raphaël G. P., Berthelet, Jérémy, Weger, Benjamin D., Challet, Etienne, Charpagne, Aline, Metairon, Sylviane, Piccand, Julie, Kraus, Marine, Rohde, Bettina H., Bial, John, Wilson, Elizabeth M., Vedin, Lise-Lotte, Minniti, Mirko E., Pedrelli, Matteo, Parini, Paolo, Gachon, Frédéric and Luquet, Serge (2023). Mice with humanized livers reveal the role of hepatocyte clocks in rhythmic behavior. Science Advances, 9 (20) eadf2982, 1-14. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adf2982
Bignon, Yohan, Wigger, Leonore, Ansermet, Camille, Weger, Benjamin D., Lagarrigue, Sylviane, Centeno, Gabriel, Durussel, Fanny, Götz, Lou, Ibberson, Mark, Pradervand, Sylvain, Quadroni, Manfredo, Weger, Meltem, Amati, Francesca, Gachon, Frédéric and Firsov, Dmitri (2023). Multiomics reveals multilevel control of renal and systemic metabolism by the renal tubular circadian clock. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 133 (8) e167133, 1-17. doi: 10.1172/JCI167133
Comprehensive analysis of the circadian nuclear and cytoplasmic transcriptome in mouse liver
Hurni, Clémence, Weger, Benjamin D., Gobet, Cédric and Naef, Felix (2022). Comprehensive analysis of the circadian nuclear and cytoplasmic transcriptome in mouse liver. PLOS Genetics, 18 (8) e1009903, e1009903. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009903
Jouffe, Céline, Weger, Benjamin D., Martin, Eva, Atger, Florian, Weger, Meltem, Gobet, Cédric, Ramnath, Divya, Charpagne, Aline, Morin-Rivron, Delphine, Powell, Elizabeth E., Sweet, Matthew J., Masoodi, Mojgan, Uhlenhaut, N. Henriette and Gachon, Frédéric (2022). Disruption of the circadian clock component BMAL1 elicits an endocrine adaption impacting on insulin sensitivity and liver disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (10) e2200083119, e2200083119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2200083119
Weger, Meltem, Weger, Benjamin D. and Gachon, Frédéric (2022). The mechanisms and physiological consequences of diurnal hepatic cell size fluctuations: a brief review. Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 56 (S2), 1-11. doi: 10.33594/000000489
The Insulin/Insulin‐like Growth Factor signaling connects metabolism with sexual differentiation
Weger, Benjamin D. and Gachon, Frédéric (2021). The Insulin/Insulin‐like Growth Factor signaling connects metabolism with sexual differentiation. Acta Physiologica, 231 (3) e13576, e13576. doi: 10.1111/apha.13576
Weger, Benjamin D., Gobet, Cédric, David, Fabrice P. A., Atger, Florian, Martin, Eva, Phillips, Nicholas E., Charpagne, Aline, Weger, Meltem, Naef, Felix and Gachon, Frédéric (2021). Systematic analysis of differential rhythmic liver gene expression mediated by the circadian clock and feeding rhythms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (3) e2015803118, 1-12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2015803118
Neuronal activity regulates blood-brain barrier efflux transport through endothelial circadian genes
Pulido, Robert S., Munji, Roeben N., Chan, Tamara C., Quirk, Clare R., Weiner, Geoffrey A., Weger, Benjamin D., Rossi, Meghan J., Elmsaouri, Sara, Malfavon, Mario, Deng, Aaron, Profaci, Caterina P., Blanchette, Marie, Qian, Tongcheng, Foreman, Koji L., Shusta, Eric V., Gorman, Michael R., Gachon, Frédéric, Leutgeb, Stefan and Daneman, Richard (2020). Neuronal activity regulates blood-brain barrier efflux transport through endothelial circadian genes. Neuron, 108 (5), 937-952.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.002
Weger, Meltem, Weger, Benjamin D, Schink, Andrea, Takamiya, Masanari, Stegmaier, Johannes, Gobet, Cédric, Parisi, Alice, Kobitski, Andrei Yu, Mertes, Jonas, Krone, Nils, Strähle, Uwe, Nienhaus, Gerd Ulrich, Mikut, Ralf, Gachon, Frédéric, Gut, Philipp and Dickmeis, Thomas (2020). MondoA regulates gene expression in cholesterol biosynthesis-associated pathways required for zebrafish epiboly. eLife, 9 e57068, 1-35. doi: 10.7554/elife.57068
Pax6 organizes the anterior eye segment by guiding two distinct neural crest waves
Takamiya, Masanari, Stegmaier, Johannes, Kobitski, Andrei Yu, Schott, Benjamin, Weger, Benjamin D., Margariti, Dimitra, Cereceda Delgado, Angel R., Gourain, Victor, Scherr, Tim, Yang, Lixin, Sorge, Sebastian, Otte, Jens C., Hartmann, Volker, van Wezel, Jos, Stotzka, Rainer, Reinhard, Thomas, Schlunck, Günther, Dickmeis, Thomas, Rastegar, Sepand, Mikut, Ralf, Nienhaus, Gerd Ulrich and Strähle, Uwe (2020). Pax6 organizes the anterior eye segment by guiding two distinct neural crest waves. PLoS Genetics , 16 (6) e1008774, e1008774. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008774
Gobet, Cédric, Weger, Benjamin Dieter, Marquis, Julien, Martin, Eva, Neelagandan, Nagammal, Gachon, Frédéric and Naef, Felix (2020). Robust landscapes of ribosome dwell times and aminoacyl-tRNAs in response to nutrient stress in liver. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (17), 9630-9641. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1918145117
Weger, Benjamin D., Rawashdeh, Oliver and Gachon, Frédéric (2019). At the intersection of microbiota and circadian clock: are sexual dimorphism and growth hormones the missing link to pathology? Circadian clock and microbiota: potential egffect on growth hormone and sexual development. BioEssays, 41 (9) 1900059, e1900059. doi: 10.1002/bies.201900059
Circadian regulation of cochlear sensitivity to noise by circulating glucocorticoids
Cederroth, Christopher R., Park, Jung-sub, Basinou, Vasiliki, Weger, Benjamin D., Tserga, Evangelia, Sarlus, Heela, Magnusson, Anna K., Kadri, Nadir, Gachon, Frédéric and Canlon, Barbara (2019). Circadian regulation of cochlear sensitivity to noise by circulating glucocorticoids. Current Biology, 29 (15), 2477-2487.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.057
Microbiota and the clock: sexual dimorphism matters!
Weger, Benjamin D and Gachon, Frédéric (2019). Microbiota and the clock: sexual dimorphism matters!. Aging, 11 (12), 3893-3894. doi: 10.18632/aging.102051
Draper, C. F., Duisters, K., Weger, B., Chakrabarti, A., Harms, A. C., Brennan, L., Hankemeier, T., Goulet, L., Konz, T., Martin, F. P., Moco, S. and van der Greef, J. (2019). Publisher correction: Menstrual cycle rhythmicity: metabolic patterns in healthy women (Scientific Reports, (2018), 8, 1, (14568), 10.1038/s41598-018-32647-0). Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 5797, 5797. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41392-x
The mouse microbiome is required for sex-specific diurnal rhythms of gene expression and metabolism
Weger, Benjamin D, Gobet, Cédric, Yeung, Jake, Martin, Eva, Jimenez, Sonia, Betrisey, Bertrand, Foata, Francis, Berger, Bernard, Balvay, Aurélie, Foussier, Anne, Charpagne, Aline, Boizet-Bonhoure, Brigitte, Chou, Chieh Jason, Naef, Felix and Gachon, Frédéric (2019). The mouse microbiome is required for sex-specific diurnal rhythms of gene expression and metabolism. Cell Metabolism, 29 (2), 362-382. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2018.09.023
PGC1α and exercise adaptations in zebrafish
Parisi, Alice, Blattmann, Peter, Lizzo, Giulia, Stutz, Vivienne, Strohm, Laura, Richard, Joy, Civiletto, Gabriele, Charpagne, Aline, Raymond, Frederic, Gobet, Cedric, Weger, Benjamin, Migliavacca, Eugenia, Aebersold, Ruedi, Spiegelman, Bruce and Gut, Philipp (2018). PGC1α and exercise adaptations in zebrafish. BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/483784
Weger, Meltem, Weger, Benjamin D., Goerling, Benjamin, Poschet, Gernot, Yildiz, Melek, Hell, Ruediger, Luy, Burkhard, Akcay, Teoman, Guran, Tulay, Dickmeis, Thomas, Mueller, Ferenc and Krone, Nils (2018). Glucocorticoid deficiency causes transcriptional and post-transcriptional reprogramming of glutamine metabolism. EBioMedicine, 36, 376-389. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2018.09.024
Menstrual cycle rhythmicity: metabolic patterns in healthy women
Draper, C. F., Duisters, K., Weger, B., Chakrabarti, A., Harms, A. C., Brennan, L., Hankemeier, T., Goulet, L., Konz, T., Martin, F. P., Moco, S. and van der Greef, J. (2018). Menstrual cycle rhythmicity: metabolic patterns in healthy women. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 14568. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32647-0
Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle
Perrin, Laurent, Loizides-Mangold, Ursula, Chanon, Stephanie, Gobet, Cedric, Hulo, Nicolas, Isenegger, Laura, Weger, Benjamin D., Migliavacca, Eugenia, Charpagne, Aline, Betts, James A., Walhin, Jean-Philippe, Templeman, Lain, Stokes, Keith, Thompson, Dylan, Tsintzas, Kostas, Robert, Maud, Howald, Cedric, Riezman, Howard, Feige, Jerome N., Karagounis, Leonidas G., Johnston, Jonathan D., Dermitzakis, Emmanouil T., Gachon, Frederic, Lefai, Etienne and Dibner, Charna (2018). Transcriptomic analyses reveal rhythmic and CLOCK-driven pathways in human skeletal muscle. eLife, 7 e34114. doi: 10.7554/eLife.34114
Weger, M., Diotel, N., Weger, B. D., Beil, T., Zaucker, A., Eachus, H. L., Oakes, J. A., do Rego, J. L., Storbeck, K. -H., Gut, P., Straehle, U., Rastegar, S., Mueller, F. and Krone, N. (2018). Expression and activity profiling of the steroidogenic enzymes of glucocorticoid biosynthesis and the fdx1 co-factors in zebrafish. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 30 (4) e12586, e12586. doi: 10.1111/jne.12586
Stem cells and the circadian clock
Weger, Meltem, Diotel, Nicolas, Dorsemans, Anne-Claire, Dickmeis, Thomas and Weger, Benjamin D. (2017). Stem cells and the circadian clock. Developmental Biology, 431 (2), 111-123. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.09.012
Loizides-Mangold, Ursula, Perrin, Laurent, Vandereycken, Bart, Betts, James A., Walhin, Jean-Philippe, Templeman, Iain, Chanon, Stéphanie, Weger, Benjamin D., Durand, Christine, Robert, Maud, Paz Montoya, Jonathan, Moniatte, Marc, Karagounis, Leonidas G., Johnston, Jonathan D., Gachon, Frédéric, Lefai, Etienne, Riezman, Howard and Dibner, Charna (2017). Lipidomics reveals diurnal lipid oscillations in human skeletal muscle persisting in cellular myotubes cultured in vitro. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (41), E8565-E8574. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1705821114
Transcriptional regulatory logic of the diurnal cycle in the mouse liver
Sobel, Jonathan Aryeh, Krier, Irina, Andersin, Teemu, Raghav, Sunil, Canella, Donatella, Gilardi, Federica, Kalantzi, Alexandra Styliani, Rey, Guillaume, Weger, Benjamin, Gachon, Frederic, Dal Peraro, Matteo, Hernandez, Nouria, Schibler, Ueli, Deplancke, Bart and Naef, Felix (2017). Transcriptional regulatory logic of the diurnal cycle in the mouse liver. Plos Biology, 15 (4) e2001069, e2001069. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2001069
Regulation of mammalian physiology by interconnected circadian and feeding rhythms
Atger, Florian, Mauvoisin, Daniel, Weger, Benjamin, Gobet, Cedric and Gachon, Frederic (2017). Regulation of mammalian physiology by interconnected circadian and feeding rhythms. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 8 (MAR) 42. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00042
Absence of 11-keto reduction of cortisone and 11-ketotestosterone in the model organism zebrafish
Tsachaki, Maria, Meyer, Arne, Weger, Benjamin, Kratschmar, Denise V., Tokarz, Janina, Adamski, Jerzy, Belting, Heinz-Georg, Affolter, Markus, Dickmeis, Thomas and Odermatt, Alex (2017). Absence of 11-keto reduction of cortisone and 11-ketotestosterone in the model organism zebrafish. Journal of Endocrinology, 232 (2), 323-335. doi: 10.1530/joe-16-0495
Extensive regulation of diurnal transcription and metabolism by glucocorticoids
Weger, Benjamin D., Weger, Meltem, Goerling, Benjamin, Schink, Andrea, Gobet, Cedric, Keime, Celine, Poschet, Gernot, Jost, Bernard, Krone, Nils, Hell, Ruediger, Gachon, Frederic, Luy, Burkhard and Dickmeis, Thomas (2016). Extensive regulation of diurnal transcription and metabolism by glucocorticoids. PLoS Genetics, 12 (12) e1006512, e1006512. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006512
Atger, Florian, Gobet, Cedric, Marquis, Julien, Martin, Eva, Wang, Jingkui, Weger, Benjamin, Lefebvre, Gregory, Descombes, Patrick, Naef, Felix and Gachon, Frederic (2015). Circadian and feeding rhythms differentially affect rhythmic mRNA transcription and translation in mouse liver. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (47), E6579-E6588. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1515308112
Takamiya, Masanari, Weger, Benjamin D., Schindler, Simone, Beil, Tanja, Yang, Lixin, Armant, Olivier, Ferg, Marco, Schlunck, Guenther, Reinhard, Thomas, Dickmeis, Thomas, Rastegar, Sepand and Straehle, Uwe (2015). Molecular description of eye defects in the zebrafish Pax6b mutant, sunrise, reveals a Pax6b-dependent genetic network in the developing anterior chamber. PLoS One, 10 (2) e0117645, e0117645. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117645
The circadian clock and glucocorticoids - Interactions across many time scales
Dickmeis, Thomas, Weger, Benjamin D. and Weger, Meltem (2013). The circadian clock and glucocorticoids - Interactions across many time scales. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 380 (1-2), 2-15. doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2013.05.012
Weger, Benjamin D., Weger, Meltem, Jung, Nicole, Lederer, Christin, Braese, Stefan and Dickmeis, Thomas (2013). A chemical screening procedure for glucocorticoid signaling with a zebrafish larva luciferase reporter system. Journal of Visualized Experiments (79) e50439. doi: 10.3791/50439
Weger, Meltem, Weger, Benjamin D., Diotel, Nicolas, Rastegar, Sepand, Hirota, Tsuyoshi, Kay, Steve A., Straehle, Uwe and Dickmeis, Thomas (2013). Real-time in vivo monitoring of circadian E-box enhancer activity: a robust and sensitive zebrafish reporter line for developmental, chemical and neural biology of the circadian clock. Developmental Biology, 380 (2), 259-273. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.04.035
A chemical screening system for glucocorticoid stress hormone signaling in an intact vertebrate
Weger, Benjamin D., Weger, Meltem, Nusser, Michael, Brenner-Weiss, Gerald and Dickmeis, Thomas (2012). A chemical screening system for glucocorticoid stress hormone signaling in an intact vertebrate. ACS Chemical Biology, 7 (7), 1178-1183. doi: 10.1021/cb3000474
The light responsive transcriptome of the zebrafish: function and regulation
Weger, Benjamin D., Sahinbas, Meltem, Otto, Georg W., Mracek, Philipp, Armant, Olivier, Dolle, Dirk, Lahiri, Kajori, Vallone, Daniela, Ettwiller, Laurence, Geisler, Robert, Foulkes, Nicholas S. and Dickmeis, Thomas (2011). The light responsive transcriptome of the zebrafish: function and regulation. PloS One, 6 (2) e17080, e17080. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017080
A role for caveolar proteins in regulation of the circadian clock
Fonseka, Sachini, Weger, Benjamin D., Weger, Meltem, Martel, Nick, Hall, Thomas Edward, Varasteh Moradi, Shayli, Gabriel, Christian H., Kramer, Achim, Ferguson, Charles, Fernández-Rojo, Manuel A., Alexandrov, Kirill, Rawashdeh, Oliver, McMahon, Kerrie-Ann, Gachon, Frederic and Parton, Robert G. (2022). A role for caveolar proteins in regulation of the circadian clock.
Delbès, Anne-Sophie, Quiñones, Mar, Gobet, Cédric, Castel, Julien, Denis, Raphaël G. P., Berthelet, Jérémy, Weger, Benjamin D., Challet, Etienne, Charpagne, Aline, Metairon, Sylviane, Piccand, Julie, Kraus, Marine, Rohde, Bettina H., Bial, John, Wilson, Elizabeth M., Vedin, Lise-Lotte, Minniti, Mirko E., Pedrelli, Matteo, Parini, Paolo, Gachon, Frédéric and Luquet, Serge (2022). Mice with humanized livers reveal the involvement of hepatocyte circadian clocks in rhythmic behavior and physiology.
The Microbiota-Growth Hormone Axis - From Metabolic Function to Liver Disease
(2023–2027) NHMRC Investigator Grants
Aberrant light exposure, chronodisruption and Alzheimer's disease
(2022–2025) Alzheimer's Association (Chicago)
Investigating the role of liver cell type-specific circadian clocks
(2020) UQ Early Career Researcher